Special Announcement

The 2017 Bay Area Portrait of Jewish Life and Jewish Communitieshas been added to the DataBank archives. The online survey of the San Francisco Bay Area (which included a probability-based mail-to-web sampling frame) collected data from more than 3,000 respondents from 10 counties -- Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma.

Professor Steven M. Cohen and Dr. Jacob B. "Jack" Ukeles served as principal investigators for the survey. The Highlights report, overview slides and the methodology report are available.

The 2017 Bay Area Jewish community study - Portrait of Bay Area Jewish Life and Communities - summarizes results of a study of the 4th largest Jewish community in the United States. Principal investigators were Steven M. Cohen and Jacob B. "Jack" Ukeles.

"The 2017 Portrait of Bay Area Jewish Life and Communities is the first-ever comprehensive study of the entire Jewish Bay Area—Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma Counties."

Jewish population estimate is 350,000 Jewish persons living in 148,000 Jewish households (any household with at least one Jewish adult).

Among the major highlights:

♦ Santa Clara County’s Jewish population of 73,000 is the largest of the ten counties in the Bay Area.

♦ Of all Jews living in the Bay Area, 1/3 live in the East Bay, 1/3 live in Peninsula & South Bay, and 1/6 live in San Francisco County.